Proverb in Story: THE DARKEST SHADOW

The Darkest Shadow

Writer: Jellyta Pricilla Mantow

Story by a film The Book Thief

One day, at the village in Germany, lived a ghost of a boy who like to lived in the shadows  and a little girl. Her name is Lielse. The little girl always have bully from Jean, her friend who hate her so much. She has no friend, till one day she met her brother even it is a ghost of her brother.

For not to scare people, the boy  always waiting his sister in the shadow. She was not afraid the dark, because she knews that her brother was. At night, was darkness into the room, she would remind him how the sun felt on the skin, how’s felt when breathe, or how’s felt snow on the tongue. Thats remind her, she still alive. The boy was missing the life, missing all of there. He loves book, always reading book. For him book is the source of words, of world. His sister loves book too. They spent all the night to reading much book in the basement, in the hidden place. In the basement a house in the poor village of Germany,  his sister who never knows about the miracle of the words, now speak with the sentences remind how ‘s out there. The boy said “ we are, all of us, created from a lump of soil. But word make us different. Human said many words but animals and plants aren’t. That’s source of reason, mind, life.”

Until one day, the boy felt sick and should back into his place, the immortal place. But his sister cried and can’t let her brother to go. Every night she reads books for her brother,  she believed what is the boy said, word will change anything. That’s could give us some life, so we can breathe.  And amazing! He was woke up and hugs his sister.

On the other morning, Jean came and heard that in the Lielse basement, there was living a ghost. And he tells to other peoples, to every Lielse’s neighbors. The peoples was angry and came with a Pastor to expel the ghost. Finally he went in the cold midnight to the darkest shadow and when he disappeared, he said goodbye for the last time.

Proverbs :

Blood is thicker than water: You may be one person to the world but you may be the world to one person, indeed your brother and sister

Charity begins at home: Walking with brother and sister in the dark is truly better than walking alone in the place full of light